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    News "State of Origin is back" - Eddie McGuire, March 2025

    It's not 'State of Formative Years'. It's State of Origin. Where everything started. Your first landing on planet earth. Anything else requires so much fiddling, argument and tortuous justifications that you wind up with Jim Stynes playing for Victoria and anyone who's ever been to the Gold...
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    Quirky AFL Facts that make no sense but ...exist

    Just a couple of 'name' facts: Good ocker names (Christian names only) Norm - The last Norm (or Norman) to play VFL was Norm Tivendale who played his last game for the Bulldogs in 1978 - nearly 50 years ago. For comparison, there were 2 Norms who made the debuts in Rd 1 1897 - the first ever...
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    Training Pre-season 2026

    The town St Kilda was actually named after a ship that used to dock there regularly in the 1800s. Sounds like their planning for it to sink this season...........................
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    Think Tank Mofra's Lazy Bottom 40 for 2025

    It's Big Footy doctrine. All new coaches face one of two scenarios: Either: A) 'Inherit a basket case' or B) 'Inherit a ready-made list where all the hard work was done by the previous coach, recruiters and administrators - even Humphrey B Bear could have coached them to a flag'.
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    Unpopular Cricket Opinions

    The guy who gets left out of all these discussions is Alan Border - averaged 50 - 46 at home, 56 away. In fact - of all players who have played a decent number of tests overseas - he has the highest away average. (OK, he was helped by a fair few 'not outs'. I did a Statsguru analysis, using 30...
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    BBL BBL Match 42, The Knockout Hobart Hurricanes v Melbourne Stars 21/1 1900hrs @ Bellerive Oval

    Also - to be fair - Owen bowled OK. His line and length was good (except for the wide). His job was to not give away 6's. He only gave away 1 - (Meredith threw the other one over the rope). Yes, Cartwright could have edged or ramped the last ball, but he had to hope he could hit the gap on...
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    BBL BBL Match 42, The Knockout Hobart Hurricanes v Melbourne Stars 21/1 1900hrs @ Bellerive Oval

    So Maxwell faces 3 balls, Harper 4 and Stoinis 6 - that's your 3 most explosive batsmen. On the Harper 'retirement' - I reckon if you retire a batsman (at least one who is facing) , it should cost the batting team one ball.
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    BBL BBL Match 42, The Knockout Hobart Hurricanes v Melbourne Stars 21/1 1900hrs @ Bellerive Oval

    Saying a 7-over game. Retire Clarke out to start with.
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    BBL BBL Match 42, The Knockout Hobart Hurricanes v Melbourne Stars 21/1 1900hrs @ Bellerive Oval

    Good result for the Stars
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    Rare games where a player kicked a bag

    Mark Lee - Richmond ruckman of the 80s - kicked 9 against the Saints at the MCG in 1982. What made this more amazing is that Mark Lee, although being a great tap ruckman, was known as being barely able to take an overhead mark to save his life. Lee kicked 94 goals in his 233-game career -...
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    Lowest-total Leading Goalkickers (AFL)

    On a somewhat-related note: In 1973, Richmond's leading goalkicker was Neil Balme (34). But that included finals. At the end of the H&A season, Richmond's leading goalkicker was Ricky Mclean with 32. The lowest team-leading goalkickers for the H&A season was 32, scored by Mclean for...
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    Christians are easily startled, but they'll soon be back. And in greater numbers 36:11

    It's very popular amongst the 'Christian Nationism' movement that has grown along with the extreme right-wing Trumpist support around the world. 'Jesus loves us, not you furriners'.
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    Lame Jokes Part 2

    I made a New Year Resolution. Stop procrastinating.
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    Training Pre-season 2026

    Tanking sucks and is detrimental to the club. In our 3-in-4 premiership era, yes, Cotchin was pick 2 and Martin Pick 3, but Riewoldt was Pick 13, Vlastuin 9, Rance 19, Edwards 26, Houli originally 42, Astbury 35, Lambert, Grimes, Short, Castagna all rookie or mid-year picks, some smart trading...
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    The obscure XI's you've always wanted to make but never found the appropriate place thread

    Clarrie Grimmet took 44 wickets in his last test series against South Africa in 1935/36, including 13-for in his last-ever test. Controversially, he was was not selected for the next Ashes series in 1936/37 or the English tour in 1938 supposedly because either: a) Bradman didn't like Grimmett...
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